Shanghai Ashes: Chen Gou

The con artist Chen Gou storms into Shanghai in search of the lover who betrayed him, rising from a dockworker to the gang's third-in-command. But just as the flames of revenge threaten to consume him, he discovers that the second-in-command of the Zhongyi Company has become a traitor, and the Japanese army is about to trample this land beneath its iron heels. Torn between ambition and conscience, he resolutely sets aside his personal vendetta and makes himself a piece on the board, devising a plan to fight the Japanese invaders. In a world of tangled love and hatred, he writes a tragic song of awakening as a warlord in troubled times.